Tag: ingredients
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When it Comes to Craft Beer, Adjuncts Have a Lot to Add
We know the basic ingredients of beer—water, malt, and hops—but what about all the other stuff that shows up in craft beer? Beyond the basics, brewers add a lot of stuff to their beers. Milk, honey, citrus, oats, rye, and so on ad infinitum. Using “adjuncts,” as they are called, brewers can experiment with a…
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Malt Matters: Beer’s Real Main Ingredient
Thanks to the IPA-driven American craft beer revolution, hops tend to get all the attention. However, there’s a lot more to beer. Beer is, at its most basic, just fermented water and cereal grain. The most common grain in beer is malt, and yet it is also the most often overlooked ingredient. Water matters, of…
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What Are the Ingredients in Craft Beer?
It may be surprising to some, but most craft beers only have four main ingredients. The tiniest of tweaks in these core ingredients have a huge impact in the resulting beer. Now we all know that craft breweries add additional ingredients like fruits and spices, we’ll be focusing on the main four here. There’s also…